One day before the complaints, Mr Hun Sen told about 4,000 garment workers at Koh Pich that Mr Lay Sreng insulted the King.

“He insulted the King by comparing him to a capon,” Mr Hun Sen said. “It was a very serious insult.”

Mr Lay Sreng’s comments were carried in a voice recording on the notorious “Seyha” Facebook page, which is often behind high-profile leaks.

Fresh News later published three recordings of Mr Lay Sreng, a former senior official of the royalist Funcinpec party, making the defamatory comments in a conversation with a woman named as Ky Lum Ang.

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